{"id":467837,"date":"2022-01-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=231028"},"modified":"2022-01-13T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:00:00","slug":"profits-over-people-why-werent-the-vaccine-manufacturers-nationalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/13\/profits-over-people-why-werent-the-vaccine-manufacturers-nationalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Profits Over People: Why Weren\u2019t the Vaccine Manufacturers Nationalized?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 6, 1917, the day the Senate ratified the declaration of war with Germany, Pres. Woodrow Wilson exercised a provision of the Radio Act of 1912 that enabled nationalization during a war; the Navy physically acquired radio companies, consolidated them and broke patents to stimulate innovation; it also took over around 50 commercial radio stations and closed down the rest of them (along with all amateur radio operators). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/13\/profits-over-people-why-werent-the-vaccine-manufacturers-nationalized\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/13\/profits-over-people-why-werent-the-vaccine-manufacturers-nationalized\/\">Profits Over People: Why Weren\u2019t the Vaccine Manufacturers Nationalized?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/13\/profits-over-people-why-werent-the-vaccine-manufacturers-nationalized\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 6, 1917, the day the Senate ratified the declaration of war with Germany, Pres. Woodrow Wilson exercised a provision of the Radio Act of 1912 that enabled nationalization during a war; the Navy physically acquired radio companies, consolidated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468844,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467837\/revisions\/468844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}